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  • Beyond high hopes : educational attainment among children of immigrants

    Creator:
    Feeney, Sarah L.
    Abstract:
    In light of broadening racial/ethnic educational attainment gaps, growing diversity within young populations, and the increasingly critical relationship between higher education and outcomes in adulthood, understanding the factors that shape educational attainment is an especially important task for research. With this goal in mind, the current study examined how national...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Settersten compiled the reading list that introduced me to a treasure chest of theoretical perspectives

  • Childhood risk as a predictor of frequency of contact between incarcerated fathers and their children

    Creator:
    Galardi, Tasha R.
    Abstract:
    U.S. incarceration rates have soared over the past three decades and the demographic characteristics of those who end up in prison are a reflection of the nation's structural inequality. Incarcerated fathers are a socially disadvantaged group and spending time in prison compounds already significant risk factors that these men experienced...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Inderbitzin, and Richard Settersten, graduate representative Kristin Barker, and statistics support person